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The Warm, Dry Winter Has Left Firefighters in Wyoming Nervous

A national forecast underscored the elevated risk of wildfire across the West, which just experienced a climate change-fueled heatwave after a winter with little snow.

By Jake Bolster

An air tanker works to slow the spread of the Dollar Lake Fire as it burns through Wyoming in August 2025. Credit: Kris Bruington/BLM
People step into the pink water near the Great Salt Lake’s Stansbury Island in Utah on Sept. 9, 2024. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Lessons From Salt Lakes for Making a Home in a Changing World

By Wyatt Myskow

Sunlight glimmers on the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River Negotiations Resume With Focus on Stopgap Measures

Scott Franz, KUNC

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability

By Dana Drugmand

A view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin

Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine is the only longwall coal mine in Montana. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

A Suncor Energy oil refinery is seen in Commerce City, Colo., on April 19, 2023. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post

Supreme Court to Decide Key Issue in Fate of State and City Suits Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change

By Lee Hedgepeth

Bill Slaughter, the heating, ventilation and air conditioning technician at Colorado Mesa University, maintains the daily operations of the school’s geothermal network. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

A Groundbreaking Geothermal Heating and Cooling Network Saves This Colorado College Money and Water

By Phil McKenna

Cars drive over the Central Arizona Canal, which delivers Colorado River water to Central and Southern Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2025. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Colorado River Negotiators Are Nearly Out of Time and Snowpack

By Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

At the Tucson Convention Center in August 2025, demonstrators opposed "Project Blue," a massive data center installation proposed by Amazon Web Services. Data centers have also now become a flashpoint in Phoenix, the third largest data center market in the country. Across the state, ratepayers are linking data center development to higher electric bills. Credit: Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In Arizona, Utilities and State Regulators Double Down on Fossil Fuels and Higher Costs Despite Residents’ Opposition

By Wyatt Myskow

Grosvenor Arch in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: (c) Tim Peterson

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress

By Wyatt Myskow

The Dollar Lake Fire broke out near Green River Lakes in the Wind River Mountains in August 2025. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Record Wildfire Season Inspires Wyoming to Prepare for an Increasingly Fiery Future

By Jake Bolster

Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Trump’s Push for Coal in Colorado Could Bring ‘Massive’ Harm to Public Lands and Rural Communities, Advocates Say

By Jake Bolster

Crusoe plans to build a massive data center campus, like this one in Abilene, Texas, in southeast Wyoming. Credit: Courtesy of Crusoe

Wyoming County Approves Construction of What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US

By Leigh Reagan Smith

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lander County, Nevada. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

An American bison stands at the foot of a mountain in Montana. Credit: Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Environmental and Cultural Benefits of Restoring the American Prairie

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Riders on a bike bus in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Ryan Harris

More Children Are Powering Their Own Wheels to School as Part of ‘Bike Buses’

By Tina Deines

Jay Carlisle, research director at Boise State University’s Intermountain Bird Observatory, walks through the burned forest near Lucky Peak station. Credit: Heidi Ware Carlisle

An Idaho Bird Research Station Rises From the Ashes of a Wildfire

By William von Herff

Demonstrators attend a Stand Up for Science rally to highlight the critical role of science in public health, environmental stewardship and education at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco on March 7. Credit: Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

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